Posts tagged Comparison from the G-Code Sprint team.
G-code and C++ differ in everything visible: words vs statements, modal state vs scope, no compiler safety net. Mapping the gap teaches both sides something.
Printers and mills share the same motion core; the dialects split at the tool: extrusion and heat words on one side, spindle, offsets, and cycles on the other.
Fanuc robots run point-taught TP programs; CNC machines run coordinate-explicit G-code. The concepts map cleanly: frames are offsets, points are positions.
Heidenhain Klartext is readable dialogue code like L X+50 FMAX; Fanuc speaks word-address blocks. Here is how the two map and which to learn when.
The motion core is identical; six differences do the damage: default plane, diameter programming, feed modes, CSS, cycle families, and comp mechanics.
Mazatrol is Mazak's menu-guided programming language; G-code is the universal word-address standard. Here is how they differ and when each one wins.
ShopMill programs Sinumerik machines through graphical work steps; ISO G-code programs them through classic blocks. Here is how they differ and when each wins.
Waterjet code keeps the 2D motion core and swaps everything tool-shaped: pump M-codes instead of a spindle, pierce dwells, and kerf comp doing the sizing work.